CONCERNED Hurdsfield residents are demanding to be consulted over plans to build a huge rubbish collection depot nearby.

As revealed in the Express last week, councillors are unhappy with Cheshire East's intention to site one of only two waste transfer stations on Hulley Road.

Ward councillors, whose numerous concerns include the risk of driving major Hurdsfield employers AstraZeneca away from the area, have calledfor the proposal to be looked at again.

And yesterday (Tuesday, September 1), families on Hulley Road insisted they need to be consulted.

Father-of-one Matt Goodchild, 30, who works at AstraZeneca's Hurdsfield site, said: "This is a nice quiet area. If there are plans like this then we should know about it. We don't want that site around a residential area.

"I don't mind if it is paper and bottles but we don't want stinky waste.

Traffic is pretty bad as it is, with AstraZeneca up the road."

Neighbour Karen Murphy, who was made redundant by AstraZeneca in December, was unhappy that residents had not already been contacted.

"I don't want to hear about it in the Express, I want to hear from the council - I hope we are going to be consulted," said the mother-of-one.

"The health and safety side would be my concern. My little boy goes out walking the dog, so great big trucks coming down the road would be a concern."

Kayley Hughes, 29, a mother-of-two,an administrator at Macclesfield Hospital, said: "It isn't right putting it right in the middle of all the houses. The smell and the traffic worry me."

Eight councillors whose wards - Broken Cross, Macclesfield Town and Macclesfield West - are affected by the proposal have "called in" the proposal and it must now be considered by CEC's corporate scrutiny committee at Macclesfield Town Hall on September 14.

Macclesfield West Councillor Darryl Beckford said he wanted Hursdfield to become a "pharmaceutical hub" for cutting edge industry and is one of those eight asking that the proposal be reconsidered.

"If you came to Macclesfield and saw a waste transfer station next to AstraZeneca then it would people off investing. We need a waste transfer station but it has to be in a sensible location," he said.